Notes
from Our Members

Alexandra Paul takes the animals’ message
to another student at Santa Monica College.

Amazingnumbers
– incredibly impressive! It really is helpful
to see how resources are being so effectively
used. Also, that’s really very interesting about
Bon
Appetit – I think that’s a very
powerful benchmark – a huge increase, and I
believe that your efforts can take the credit!—JC, 7/19/11

Reached
680 more at Cal State Long Beach
– feel the love! Heard many thanks and felt
some shift in real time.
Just gotta say
how grateful I am to have the chance to speak
for animals, opening eyes and hearts, carrying
out the vision of you amazing humans with Vegan
Outreach. I can’t thank you enough for all you
do, donors and volunteers. I’m completely honored
to have the ability to help.—Nikki Benoit, 6/6/11

Hot
dang, the kids at Oakland Technical
High School were great! Jeni and I have done
this school before and we don’t remember
everyone being as receptive. Got some funny
comments, heartfelt ones, and a little bit of
healthy antagonism. Only a few booklets ended
up on the ground; we saw many more kids reading
them.—Brian Grupe, 6/8/11

The
crowd at The Decemberists concert
was so good it was surreal – we quickly reached
650 polite and responsive individuals. I also
ran into a lad who said, “Vegan Outreach,
right?” Me: “Yes!” Lad: “Awesome!”
And, as always, it was great to leaflet with
Kate and Aaron!—Jon Camp, 6/13/11

My
communications class final was
a speech. I chose mine to be on eating a plant-based
diet, and gave everyone a booklet. It went fantastic.
I also brought in vegan cookies. I don’t think
I’ve been more pleased, until I saw my grade
on it: 280/280. My instructor’s note:
“Great delivery, pace, and eye contact.
I won’t lie, the cookies also helped your grade.”—Taylor Waters, 6/9/11

By any means possible: David Coman-Hidy
goes to great lengths to reach more people
at Warped Tour’s Minneapolis stop.

Been
tied up on weekdays lately, so
I was really happy to see a semi-full parking
lot when I passed by Miami-Dade College. Leafleting
went great – many students immediately looking
through the info. Sad to think of the moral
blindness so many go through their lives in,
but at the same time experiencing that makes
the fact that I stopped in today an even more
worthwhile time spent for me. That’s one of
the best things about leafleting in my book
– no one can ever accuse us of preaching to
the choir, now can they? I think not.—Yuri Mitzkewich, 6/11/11

Lori
Atkinson and I went to the big
farmers’ market in San Francisco at the Ferry
Building on Saturday. We handed out 170 in 40
minutes and, as far as we could see, there were
no throwaways.
I’ve been so happy to find Vegan Outreach so
I could finally do something. It has helped
relieve me of that terrible sick feeling I get
in my stomach thinking about what is happening
to millions of animals at that very moment.—Leslie Goldberg, 7/10/11

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Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
dedicated to reducing the suffering of
farmed animals by promoting informed,
ethical eating.